badcede

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by badcede 8y ago
That is great fucking writing.
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by badcede 8y ago
Sounds a bit like how we might all still enjoy solving puzzles even after the AIs take over. (I don't think the AIs will take over, but I also don't think we'll stop solving puzzles if they do.)
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by badcede 8y ago
You're right, it all feels samey, in an uneasy way. Maybe the "How I..." ecosystem is mostly self-referential.
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by badcede 8y ago
And yet here you are.
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by badcede 8y ago
It's something to do, at least.
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by badcede 8y ago
You didn't give them a chance to respond to the information that you don't drink?
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by badcede 8y ago
As far as I can tell, having observed this question closely if intermittently for 20 years, those 80-90 hour work weeks are a myth. Which is unsurprising, since self-reported data is famously unreliable. There's never any independent e
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by badcede 8y ago
The startup world is big enough that this says little more than "Fuck You World".
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by badcede 8y ago
All he said was that he hadn't known them to. If they were and didn't tell him, that explains that.
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by badcede 8y ago
I meant the phrase in the first paragraph ("when it doesn't matter, in the eye of the investor"). In fact there's nothing in that first paragraph that isn't false.
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by badcede 8y ago
Why would they? It's in their interests to blame the reporter. That's the one-bad-apple way.
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by badcede 8y ago
That's not a requirement, what it describes is not dishonesty, nor does it use that word. Nor does the phrase you put in quotation marks appear in the essay. Who's being dishonest here?
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by badcede 8y ago
It seems more embarrassing than entertaining.
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by badcede 8y ago
These windbags did not build the internet.
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by badcede 8y ago
Adam Smith, from The Wealth of Nations, Chapter III: "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at th
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by badcede 8y ago
Name recognition.
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by badcede 9y ago
That's a transparent no-true-Scotsman. If it violates the argument just redefine the terms.
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by badcede 9y ago
Charm?
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by badcede 9y ago
People selling methodologies always claim unrelated big successes as instances of their method.
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by badcede 9y ago
Their "main goal" is self-promotion, same as the material they put down. Which they need, the way dung beetles need dung.
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by badcede 9y ago
It's just his usual troll. They've been blowing that note for ten years and will never change. Sing the third, just sing the third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTzT3FmxhI . Amusing how he talks about "the
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by badcede 9y ago
What vanity to think he has any rights over it.
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by badcede 9y ago
"they don't anymore, but actually they still do" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVKtxHTcnho
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by badcede 9y ago
Laziness is not skepticism.
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by badcede 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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by badcede 9y ago
"The fact is that a mere training in one or more of the exact sciences, even combined with very high gifts, is no guarantee of a humane or sceptical outlook." http://orwell.ru/library/articles/science&#x2
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by badcede 9y ago
"they would have already taken control of us" This assumes that they would be just like humans, and only the rapacious ones at that.
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by badcede 9y ago
Punk often misspelled things to make some punky point, so "right" was likely a deliberate pun.
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by badcede 9y ago
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/crucial_punk_doc_doa_a_r...
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by badcede 9y ago
Still at the same trough after all these years?

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